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Monday, October 31, 2005

All right, because you guys nagged, I tried again. I used the Blogspot posting template, as usual, but tried the "insert link" button that looks like a pair of eyes. Highlighting the text that I wanted to be linkable, I then pressed that button.... and all of my to-post text vanished, replaced by an href statement... and my entire posting was completely unrecoverable. Vanished. Gone.

There was no link "inserted". The link REPLACED everything I wanted to post.

Would anyone care to explain to me why I need the tsuris?

This was using netscape on a Mac. I tried Explorer and it was even worse, not even bothering to display the edit icons.

I will continue to simply post the url. If you are interested, paste it into the go to line. I do not have time for this.

10 comments:

David, your approach has not bothered me. The root cause of your trouble is probably the older version of Netscape (not to mention IE) which Blogspot probably hadn't considered in writing its tools. It expects you to be using Safari or Firefox, if you're coming from a Mac. And it expects that you're using OS X.

I still think you'd gush about a 12 inch iBook. I can't say enough positive about mine, since I bought it.

I seriously recommend typing up your posting in your favorite word processor or text editor. Browsers were not really designed for writing emails and posting blogs, and all the browsing functionality can lead to data loss if you make a mistake. (e.g. backspace = go back one page OR remove previous character in posting, depending on context).

In Blogger, go to Settings -> Posting. In the field on the bottom of the page type a few copies of the A HREF tag. It'll be there every time you want to start a new post (not in regular WYSIWIG view but in the "View HTML" view). Just slide the URL between the quotation marks and a title between > and

Heck, "Blog This" is broken some of the time with Firefox/OSX as well -- it gets confused about what's a link and what's a quotation and puts them in the wrong places. Post, Read, Correct, then make final.

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